--- title: Spoiling and losing things — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Spoiling and losing things», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ollie in Glasgow tore pages out of his maths exercise book to make paper planes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Spoiling and losing things # Spoiling and losing things Lesson 361 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/0/) — Ollie in Glasgow tore pages out of his maths exercise book to make paper planes. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/1/) — For a fortnight the teacher did not notice — until the book fell apart in her hands. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/2/) — She wrote a note in his planner, and Mum and Dad had to sign it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/3/) — At home there was a row, the console went in the cupboard for a week, and Ollie slammed his door shouting «it's only paper!» By Sunday the sulk had worn off. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/4/) — He said sorry, paid for a new book from his pocket money and copied his work neatly into it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/6/) — Nobody punished her — losing the bike was the punishment. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/7/) — Dad bought a second-hand one, and Isla paid part of it and now locks it every time. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/8/) — Spoiling things on purpose in anger, or losing them by carelessness, costs money, time and sometimes someone else's work. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/9/) — The bad mark or the lost console is not revenge from grown-ups; it is the cost of what happened, made clear. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/10/) — Feeling cross and hard-done-by after a punishment is normal. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/11/) — It fades — and putting things right is still your job. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/12/) — Breaking your own things in anger leaves you without them when you calm down. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/13/) — A fridge door left open lets the inside warm up, and food like milk can go off. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/14/) — Buying things on impulse often means having no money for the things you really want. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/15/) — Exercise books hold your work; tearing pages out loses that work. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/16/) — A bath left running can overflow and damage floors and the ceiling below. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/17/) — Throwing food on the floor wastes it, and someone has to clean it up. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/18/) — Spoiling someone else's picture or work hurts them as well as the thing. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/19/) — An unlocked bike is much easier to steal than a locked one. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/20/) — A punishment such as losing a console is a consequence, not revenge. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/21/) — Sulking after a fair consequence is understandable, but it does not put things right. - ← previous: [Wasting food and water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/) - next →: [Spending money online without asking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)